 | Bruce Mansfield - 1992 - 548 pages
...• and contradictions of our first reformers' — and reconversion to some kind of residual faith (‘acquiescing with implicit belief in the tenets...the general consent of Catholics and Protestants'), he found a model in Pierre Bayle as understood by the Enlightenment: ‘he balances the false religions... | |
 | Stefan Collini, Richard Whatmore, B. W. Young, Brian Young - 2000 - 306 pages
...such enthusiasms, who deftly refuses to be drawn on his inward convictions: 'on Christmas Day 1754, I received the sacrament in the Church of Lausanne. It was here that I suspended my Religious enquiries, acquiescing with implicit belief in the tenets and mysteries which are adopted by the general... | |
 | Franklin Verzelius Newton Painter - 1899 - 822 pages
...of the Romish creed disappeared like a dream ; and after a full conviction, on Christmas Day, 1754, I received the sacrament in the church of Lausanne....the general consent of Catholics and Protestants." While at Lausanne he made the acquaintance of Voltaire, whose writings appear to have exerted no small... | |
 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray IV, Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle), George Walter Prothero - 1897 - 608 pages
...' It was here,' says Gibbon with imperturbable gravity, ' that 1 suspended my Religious enquiries, acquiescing with implicit belief in the tenets and...the general consent of Catholics and Protestants.' The ' thin little figure with the large head,' upon which dull M. Pavillard gazed with astonishment,... | |
 | Edward Gibbon - 1907 - 412 pages
...articles of the Romish creed disappeared like a dream, and after a full conviction, on Christmas Day 1754, I received the sacrament in the Church of Lausanne. It was here that I suspended my Religious enquiries, acquiescing with implicit belief in the tenets and mysteries which are adopted by the general... | |
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The various articles of the Romish creed disappeared like a dream; and after a full conviction, on Christmas Day 1754, I received the sacrament in the church of Lausanne. It was here that I suspended my religious inquiries, acquiescing with implicit belief... 
